Stingray: Conservative Christian News and Commentary
Posted on 02/16/2006 2:43:21 PM PST by DallasMike
The Washington Post is reporting that the Sarita, Texas sherriff's department has closed its investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney. The sheriff's report supports Cheney's account of what is, according to the wacko left, the biggest story since Watergate. The Post is also reporting that President Bush is "very satisfied" with Cheney's explanation.
According to a Rasmussen poll, 57% of Americans believe that the hunting accident was "just one of those very embarrassing things that happens to all of us." I find that interesting because, as any listener to Sean Hannity "man on the street" interviews, at least 20% of the American population has no idea who Dick Cheney is. My impression is that the only people bent out of shape by the accident are the hardcore, politically-active left wingers -- maybe 10% of the population at most. Hat tip to RedState.
The Associated Press is saying that Cheney's hunting mishap was a disaster. So who did they consult to determine that this was a disaster? Our old buddy Lanny Davis, liar extraordinaire for the Clinton administration.
"It's a self-created nightmare," said Lanny Davis, a former Clinton White House troubleshooter who now heads a Washington law practice that specializes in legal crisis management. "Cheney took a non-story, or a minor story, and created a huge negative story because of his stubbornness and his arrogance."
Meanwhile, and not so surprisingly, Bob Herbert of the New York Times is calling for Cheney to step down in his latest column "Mr. Vice-President, It's Time To Go." As you will see, Herbert is of the "Cheney is Hitler" school of writing. I do give him points though for using the phrase "the flaming quagmire of Iraq." It's also interesting that ABC has finally 'fessed up and aired a tape of Saddam and his henchmen talking of using WMDs against the United States. Apparently the brilliant Mr. Herbert believes that Cheney forgot to tell Saddam that he didn't have any WMDs. Anyway, here's some spew from Herbert:
There's a reason Dick Cheney is obsessive about shunning the spotlight. His record is not the kind you want to hold up for intense scrutiny.
More than anyone else, he was fanatical about massaging and distorting the intelligence that plunged us into the flaming quagmire of Iraq. He insisted that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was hot on the trail of nukes. He pounded away at the false suggestion that Iraq was somehow linked to Al Qaeda. And he spread the word that the war he wanted so badly would be a cakewalk.
"I really do believe," he told Tim Russert, "that we will be greeted as liberators."
Well, he got his war. And while the nation's brave young soldiers and marines were bouncing around Iraq in shamefully vulnerable Humvees and other vehicles, dodging bullets, bombs and improvised explosive devices, Mr. Cheney (a gold-medal winner in the acquisition of wartime deferments) felt perfectly comfortable packing his fancy 28-gauge Perazzi shotgun and heading off to Texas with a covey of fat cats to shoot quail.
Matters went haywire, of course, when he shot Mr. Whittington instead.
That was the moment when the legend of the tough, hawkish, take-no-prisoners vice president began morphing into the less-than-heroic image of a reckless, scowling incompetent who mistook his buddy for a bird.
Meanwhile, the left wing wackos are working overtime with conspiracy theories at places like firedoglake and Daily Kos. It's great entertainment if you have a few minutes.
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No, Lanny, the news media took a relatively non-story and created a huge negative story because of their stubbornness and their arrogance. Again, where was the news media's self-righteousness about "the right to know" when Ted Kennedy delayed reporting his accident to the local police, or when the Clinton White House delayed reporting on the "suicide" of Vince Foster?
It's amazing that someone can parlay pure hatred into a career.
Or the numerous successful cover-ups of events in past administrations that we never did hear about.
Yep, MSM all have the memo now so they are on the same page:
Sheriff: No Charges Against Cheney
WXIA-TV, GA - 33 minutes ago
... AP) -- The sheriff's department closed its investigation Thursday into Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner and said no charges will be filed ...
Sheriff: No charges to be filed against Cheney
Standard-Speaker, PA - 34 minutes ago
... Texas - The sheriff’s department closed its investigation Thursday into Dick Cheney’s accidental shooting of a hunting partner and said no charges will be ...
Sydney Morning Herald No charges to be filed against Vice President Cheney
Tampa Bay's 10, FL - 2 hours ago
Sarita, Texas - A sheriff's department in Texas says no charges will be filed against Vice President Cheney over a weekend hunting accident. ...
No Charges For Cheney in Hunting Accident WXXA
Cheney: I accept blame for shooting my friend Unison.ie
Cheney Comes Clean on Hunting Accident AXcess News
all 4,573 related »
No Charges To Be Filed Against VP Cheney
CBS 13, CA - 2 hours ago
(AP) SARITA, Calif. A sheriff's department in Texas says no charges will be filed against Vice President Cheney over a weekend hunting accident. ...
Now, the unanswerable question is how much alcohol was involved. It's unanswerable because the local Sheriff did not send CSI out to the shooting scene to gather evidence (including breathalizer test reports). One can only wonder how many ranch shootings in Texas received no law enforcement response until the Ranch Hands say it's okay to send CSI out.
The original Fish & Game Report says alcohol was not involved, period, but a violation of law (no 'Upland Bird Stamp') was perpetrated. Cheney immediately cuts a $7 check & mails it in. Further, the local Sheriff sends no investigators to the Ranch that evening, based upon assurances of a Ranch Hand employed by the Ranch (& former Sheriff's Deputy) that this was an accident & investigators could come Sunday morning.
When meek investigators are dispatched to interview the aged Harry at the Hospital, they ask if they can record the interview...Harry says No!. They then ask for an Affidavit & Harry says he'll do that when he returns to Austin & gets a Round Tuit. The nurse tell the investigators to vamoose, which they do, but only after aged Harry tells them the ONE thing they need to know: "NO ALCOHOL WAS INVOLVED!" No one knows the whereabouts of the alleged bird, allegedly flushed from the field by Cheney's footsteps...or those of his female companion-hunter.
And we are left with the VP, flush with SOME unknowable amount of alcohol, whirling counter-clockwise into the sunset, hurriedly aiming at an alleged, never-identified bird & firing .28-gauge buckshot into the tall grass where his aged friend Harry crouched in search of dead game...
Cheney's poor judgment leaves me no choice but to cease being apologetic for this fiasco...Sorry.
Are you kidding?
"No one knows the whereabouts of the alleged bird . . . or female"?! You must be pulling our legs, because I was the one who TOLD you where the females are:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577920/posts?page=67#67
28 guage buckshot???
Gowan!
And while Drunken Ted was "delaying" said report, a young woman was effin' drowning - a young woman who may well have been saved if he'd made one phone call to the cops instead of the 26 he made to his political advisors!
"...or those of his female companion-hunter."
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"...or those of his female companion-hunter, Ms. Pamela Willeford, US Ambassador to Switzerland."
".28 guage buckshot..."
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"a 28-gauge Perazzi shotgun..."
Good calls...
LOL - just because YOU don't know where the US Ambassador to Switzerland is (may I suggest THE U.S. EMBASSY) or the difference between "birdshot" and "buckshot" doesn't mean we have to take you seriously - you did not answer that question.
That's true. Your opinion of my opinion is yours alone.
Herbert's an ass. Bigtime!
Agreed - here's my question one last time: Are you kidding?!
I'm not dismissing you opinion because of any of that - I'm dismissing it because it is WACKO LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY territory.
Well, maybe I am a little like Jim Garrison & just don't get it sometimes. Thanks for reminding me to constantly check what's coming in through the tinfoil hat from Montana Central...
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